Issue 3.5 — April 2009 » Ames Progressive.org

COVER STORY Ames' Growing Pains OF LOCAL IMPORTANCE Reclaiming Varsity Theatre FICTION All Too Soon UNDER THE RADAR The Future of the Dinkey Bridge
REMINISCENCE What Ames can learn from Athens OF LOCAL IMPORTANCE 2900 West Street FEATURE Leslie Hall: The Queen of Ames Music PROFILE (Not Quite) the End of the Rainbow



ONLINE EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Daniel Choi Challenges Don't Ask, Don't Tell	DIY Market Street Media Foundry	ONLINE EXCLUSIVE On the Road, Against the State: The Motorhome Diaries in Ames	INTERVIEW Secretary of Ag candidate Francis Thicke



UNDER THE RADAR Urban Chicken Farming in Ames	COVER STORY The Cannabis Crusade: Could medical marijuana come to Iowa?	FREDERICK KIRSCHENMANN Remembers Norman Borlaug	REPORT Conflict, Minerals, and Militarization in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Feature
Patrick Tape Fleming in Ames Music History
By Nate Logsdon

Of Local Importance
The Torch Singer
By Cris Matibag
The Legality of Selling Pipes in Ames
By Cris Matibag

Editorial
Same-Sex Marriage Comes to Iowa

Fiction
The Knife Fight
By Jerrod Jordahl

Music Review
Charles S. McVey’s Exuberant Blasphemies
By Nate Logsdon

Under the Radar
Valuing non-profits: Thoughts from the Heifer International Ranch
By Gavin Aronsen

Poetry
Shoulder to Elbow
By Aaron Wiegert
Surrealist Zoo
By Raul Flores, Jr.
they dance on together
By Joseph David Soukup

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COVER STORY Ames' Growing Pains	OF LOCAL IMPORTANCE Reclaiming Varsity Theatre	FICTION All Too Soon	UNDER THE RADAR The Future of the Dinkey Bridge



REMINISCENCE What Ames can learn from Athens	OF LOCAL IMPORTANCE 2900 West Street	FEATURE Leslie Hall: The Queen of Ames Music	PROFILE (Not Quite) the End of the Rainbow

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